# 卸

| 卸 | U+5378, &#21368; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5378 |
| ← 卷 [U+5377] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 卹 → [U+5379] |

## Translingual
### Han character

卸 (Kangxi radical 26, 卩+6 in traditional Chinese and Korean, 卩+7 in mainland China and Japanese, 8 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 9 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 人一尸中 (OMSL), four-corner 8712$_0$, composition ⿰𦈢卩)
* to lay down
* to retire from office

#### Derived characters

* 啣, 𪩆, 御, 𨓴, 𦖐, 𧌋, 𨨶

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 159, character 24
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2861
* Dae Jaweon: page 365, character 6
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 314, character 3
* Unihan data for U+5378

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 卸 | *sŋjaːs |
| 汻 | *hŋaːŋʔ |
| 滸 | *hŋaːʔ |
| 午 | *ŋaːʔ |
| 仵 | *ŋaːʔ |
| 旿 | *ŋaːʔ |
| 忤 | *ŋaːs |
| 迕 | *ŋaːs |
| 杵 | *ŋ̊ʰjaʔ |
| 籞 | *ŋaʔ |
| 蘌 | *ŋaʔ |
| 篽 | *ŋaʔ |
| 禦 | *ŋaʔ, *ŋas |
| 許 | *hŋaʔ |
| 御 | *ŋas |
Omission of 彳 in 御. 午 (OC *ŋaːʔ) still gives the sound.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): xiè (xie$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄝˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): se$^3$
* Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sia
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sià
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: xiè
*** Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄝˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: siè
*** Wade–Giles: hsieh$^4$
*** Yale: syè
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shieh
*** Palladius: се (se)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: se$^3$
*** Yale: se
*** Cantonese Pinyin: se$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: sé$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /sɛː³³/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sia
*** Hakka Romanization System: xia
*** Hagfa Pinyim: xia$^4$
*** Sinological IPA: /si̯a⁵⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sià
*** Tâi-lô: sià
*** Phofsit Daibuun: siax
*** IPA (Xiamen): /sia²¹/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /sia⁴¹/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /sia²¹/
*** IPA (Taipei): /sia¹¹/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /sia²¹/
* Middle Chinese: sjaeH
Rime :
| Character | 卸 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 心 (16) |
| Final (韻) | 麻 (100) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 司夜切 |
| Baxter | sjaeH |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /sia$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /sia$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /sia$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /sia$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /sia$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /sĭa$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /si̯a$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | xiè |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | se$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-qʰA(ʔ)-s/
    (Zhengzhang): /*sŋjaːs/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 卸 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | xiè |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ sjæ$^H$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*s-qʰA(ʔ)-s/ |
| English | to unload |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. ||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 卸 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 13166 |
| Phonetic component | 午 |
| Rime group | 魚 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 蝑 |
| Old Chinese | /*sŋjaːs/ |

### Definitions

卸
* to unload
* to take; to remove
* to release; to shirk; to resign; to retire (from office)

#### Compounds

* 丟盔卸甲 / 丢盔卸甲
* 交卸
* 倒戈卸甲
* 傾卸卡車 / 倾卸卡车
* 傾卸機 / 倾卸机
* 卸下 (xièxià)
* 卸任 (xièrèn)
* 卸包袱
* 卸妝 / 卸妆 (xièzhuāng)
* 卸擔子 / 卸担子 (xièdànzi)
* 卸甲
* 卸甲坪 (Xièjiǎpíng)
* 卸甲店 (Xièjiǎdiàn)
* 卸磨殺驢 / 卸磨杀驴 (xièmòshālǘ)
* 卸肩
* 卸臉 / 卸脸 (xièliǎn)
* 卸貨 / 卸货 (xièhuò)
* 卸責 / 卸责 (xièzé)
* 卸除 (xièchú)
* 卸頂 / 卸顶
* 卸頭 / 卸头
* 大卸八塊 / 大卸八块
* 拆卸 (chāixiè)
* 拋戈卸甲 / 抛戈卸甲
* 推卸 (tuīxiè)
* 脫卸 / 脱卸
* 裝卸 / 装卸 (zhuāngxiè)
* 解衣卸甲
* 霸王卸甲

### References

* “Entry #3620”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Jōyō kanji)
* wholesale
* to grate, grated

#### Readings

* Go-on: しゃ (sha)
* Kan-on: しゃ (sha)
* Kun: おろし (oroshi, 卸, Jōyō)、おろす (orosu, 卸す, Jōyō)

#### Compounds

* 卸(おろし)売(うり) (oroshiuri, “wholesale”)
** 卸(おろし)売(う)り (oroshiuri, Alternative form of the above.)
* 卸(おろ)し金(がね) (oroshigane, “grater”)
* 大(だい)名(みょう)卸(おろ)し (daimyō-oroshi, “filleting a fish into three”)
* 棚(たな)卸(おろ)し (tanaoroshi, “inventory count”)

## Korean
### Hanja

卸 • (sa) (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune–Reischauer sa)
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

## Vietnamese
### Han character

卸: Hán Việt readings: tá
卸: Nôm readings: tá, xả
* Nôm form of xả (“discharge, remove”).

### References

* ↑ Trần (1999).
* ↑ Thiều Chửu (1942).
* 1 2 Trần (2004).